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of Asia Minor, & probably belonged to the aborigines of America, properly so called. To cover the entire body is Scythic. To bury in graves, or in boxes, is Ethiopic, Egyptian, and in part Hebraic, the Hebrews having learned it during their residence in Egypt, though they did not generally adopt it. (Genesis ch 50 v. 36: - Luke, ch: 7 v. 14: - Matt: ch 27 v 60: - Mark, ch: VI v29: - John ch 11, v.44: - 2K: ch:13v.21) It may be concluded that the mounds over entire bodies are Scythic; graves & boxes Hebraic; and boxes in the mounds, Hebraic & Scythic; and,of course, that unconsumed skeletons, we see here, are either pure Scythians or Hebrew Scythians, whilst all others are Hindooic, or in other words aboriginal. The large men of the world have always been found in the north, and they have often invaded and broken up the people of the south. They have never been found in the south; nor have the people of the south ever broken up their settlements there, and marched upon those of the north, to expel them from their possessions?, to make room for themselves. The men who deposited the skeletons we are now contemplating, were of northern growth, and they came to the south to drive away the inhabitants whom they found there, and to seat themselves in their possessions?." 200. -xx, "One opinion, if not the better one, refers the articles of this chapter to those northern conquerors, who overran the old world, and who seem also to have passed over to this continent, in pursuit of their chief business, the trade of war & desolation." - p.193.